Birthdays: French King Louis X The Stubborn 1314, Richard
Cromwell “ Tumbledown Dick, “ President Rutherford B. Hayes, Frederick
Remington, Jean Millet, Buster Keaton, Englebert Dolfuss, Charlton Heston,
Susan Sarandon is 71, Armand Assante, Damon Runyon, Alvin Tofler author of
Future Shock, Anne Rice, Alicia Silverstone is 41, Christoph Waltz is 61, Liev
Schreiber is 50
1798- Lyrical Ballads, a
small book of poems published jointly by English poets William Wordsworth and
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The book opened with the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
and finished with Wordsworth’s Lines composed a few miles above Tinturn Abbey.”
The book didn’t sell that well. Wordsworth blamed Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner
poem for being too long. Some of the best sales of the book were by sea
captains who thought The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner was a collection
of sea shantys.
1931- Chester Gould's "Dick
Tracy" comic strip debuts.
1943- Actor Clark Gable was
awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal for flying combat missions over Germany.
It was said Gable took these deliberately dangerous missions instead of doing
USO shows out of a death-wish in grief for his wife Carole Lombard, who was
killed in a plane crash the year before.
1950- The first Peanuts comic
strip introducing Charlie Brown’s dog Snoopy.
1957-"Leave it to Beaver'
debuts on CBS.
1969- Diane Linkletter, the
daughter of television personality Art Linkletter got high on LSD and leapt out
of a window to her death. Her boyfriend snatched at the belt loops of her dress
in an attempt to save her, but they tore away. Afterwards Art Linkletter became
a livelong crusader against drug abuse.
1971- Janis Joplin was found dead
of a drug overdose at the Landmark Hotel in Hollywood. She was 27. Her song “Me
and Bobby McGee” was as yet unreleased but soon topped the pop charts. Joplin
left a considerable sum in her will for a party for her friends. The invitation
read “ The Drinks are on Pearl”, her nickname.
1986- On a New York street a man
named William Tager walked up to CBS News anchor Dan Rather and mumbling
“Kenneth, what’s the Frequency?” started furiously punching Rather. He thought
CBS was beaming microwaves at his brain and it was Dan’s fault. Who Kenneth
was, remains a mystery.
2001-
James Hemingway, the youngest son of writer Ernest Hemingway, was found dead in
the women’s wing of a Miami jail. He had
become a transsexual, and had gone by the name of Gloria, and was picked up by
Miami cops for drug use and exposing himself in public. He was 69.
2006-
Julian Assange founded Wikileaks.
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